I live and work on the traditional lands of the Menang Noongar people and pay my respects to Elders past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

96E Minister may determine that certain visa holders must complete revalidation check in the public interest

(1) If the Minister thinks it is in the public interest to do so, the Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine that a specified class of persons holding a visa of a prescribed kind (however described) must complete a revalidation check for the visa.

— http://rran.org/

Thus the minister can discriminate against people by class, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, date of arrival, age, gender, etc. No evidence of wrong-doing would be required. Asylum seekers and refugees who are already in Australia are the most vulnerable, but these extreme powers could be applied to any non-citizen. Coupled with DIBP's blocking of many migrants from taking their final step to becoming citizens (despite them having been awarded citizen status) Australia is becoming more and more authoritarian, where extreme power is wielded unchecked and rules are changed arbitrarily.

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On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia protesting Australia's indefinite detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru. There are more than 1500 asylum seekers trapped in offshore detention since 2013. These are transcripts of those letters. I am still waiting for a response from Mr Turnbull.

The Confined Hearts Project: Penny Ryan's project involves making and showing 1468 small terracotta human hearts, one for each person currently detained on Nauru and Manus Island as part of Australia’s policies on people seeking asylum.

Voices from detention

The Messenger is based on thousands of voice messages sent by Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a refugee currently detained on the Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, to Michael Green, a journalist based in Melbourne.

Behind the Wires is an oral history project documenting the stories of the men, women and children who have been detained by the Australian government after seeking asylum in Australia.